SO GOOD QUOTES

Category: LONELINESS & SOLITUDE

  • I fell silent, with a sense of satiety, of futility. I might, I reflected, go on questioning my mother for hours and still not come to a conclusion about anything: her life, and she herself, had by now attained a degree of utter meaninglessness which amounted, in the long run, to a sort of mystery at the same time both dull and impenetrable.

    Boredom
    Alberto Moravia

  • You have a lovely text threads with friends from your childhood or your 20s that pop off every few days.

    But let’s be real: it’s just not enough. When you let yourself think about it, you feel incredibly isolated.

    The Dark Heart of Individualism
    Anne Helen Petersen

  • “The world is weary of me, and I am weary of it.” 

    —Charles D’Orleans

  • “Could I too choose to make the pain stop by staying busy? Eventually, the action was over and everyone had to go home. There is always a point when the doing ends, and then we are faced with the deafening and horrendous silence that is our thoughts.”

    —Joe Watson Jr., The End of Despair

  • “Could I too choose to make the pain stop by staying busy?  Eventually, the action was over and everyone had to go home. There is always a point when the doing ends, and then we are faced with the deafening and horrendous silence that is our thoughts.”

    —Joe Watson Jr., The End of Despair

  • I always felt two whiskeys in while everybody I talked to was as polished as a news anchor.

    —Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy

  • “So in every test, let us say: ‘Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation.’”

    —Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  • “Those who have been humbled by their passions may take courage. For even if they fall into every pit and are trapped in all the snares and suffer all maladies, yet after their restoration to health they become physicians, beacons, lamps, and pilots for all, teaching us the habits of every disease and from their own personal experience able to prevent their neighbours from falling.”

    —St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent

  • CHAPTER IX: Of another sort of dejection which produces despair of salvation.

    THERE is, too, another still more objectionable sort of dejection, which produces in the guilty soul no amendment of life or correction of faults, but the most destructive despair: which did not make Cain repent after the murder of his brother, or Judas, after the betrayal, hasten to relieve himself by making amends, but drove him to hang himself in despair.

    —St. John Cassian, Institutes